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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 20:15
Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

Try Hogarth era Marillion; some more personal and emotional lyrics.


he said prog
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Points: 1243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 20:17
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:


Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

Try Hogarth era Marillion; some more personal and emotional lyrics.
he said prog
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 20:33
Originally posted by arhar arhar wrote:

Apologies if this was asked a million times already..



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Points: 4098 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 20:39
If she likes jazz she may be able to appreciate some prog---eventually--but I wouldn't keep my hopes up as I just think guys are more wired to like the stuff---even my sister likes some of it (years of brainwashing from her big brother) but the music is still not a passion for her.
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Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 20:56
I'd say play some "Close to the Edge" by Yes.  I know some people who don't like a lot of progressive rock really enjoy that album.  Some "Larks Tongues in Aspic" is great too if she's into very melodic music.

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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:03
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Jazz and classical are better than prog, just forget about it

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Porcupine Tree's "Even Less" impressed a girl that I was with earlier.

Yeah, you need modern good-looking prog with slick production. Usually work with girls. Wink

And who, male or female, can resist the great How to Measure a Planet?
And their later trip-hop influenced works such as Souvenirs (not much prog in there but a nice way to get people started), work with a lot of girls.
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Points: 2504 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:03
Soft Machine.  For now, it's pretty much the only jazzy prog I listen to.  I guess The Tangent have some of those qualities at times, so I guess you could try them.


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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:04
Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

Porcupine Tree's "Even Less" impressed a girl that I was with earlier.

Yeah, you need modern good-looking prog with slick production. Usually work with girls. Wink

And who, male or female, can resist the great How to Measure a Planet?
And their later trip-hop influenced works such as Souvenirs (not much prog in there but a nice way to get people started), work with a lot of girls.

He did say her girl liked jazz and classical, not sure how much she would be into the slick production thingy...
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Points: 5210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:16
If you have a girlfriend, you have to turn in your prog card anyway.

Consider it revoked son?

Or drop her and come over here and listen to some Univers Zero.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:21
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

Try Hogarth era Marillion; some more personal and emotional lyrics.


he said prog
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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:21
i know im so smert
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Just play "Selling England by the Pound" or something in the car or during a date and see what happens.
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Points: 514 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 00:37
As stated earlier, if she already has a great taste of music (classical and jazz), why force her into something else? I understand you would like to share the prog thing with her, but are you for example equally interested in or open towards classical?
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Points: 279 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 04:05
Also Camel's Albums are pretty emotional, yea symphonic but very close to fusion.those might push her from jazz to symphonic.tho I think jazz fusion has more masterpieces.maybe you change yourself and be a jazz guy, ha?Clown
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Points: 1321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 04:51
Don't - and accept she has different music tastes to you and that that's ok.

We're not Jehovah's Witnesses, it isn't our mission to convert everyone to our way of thinking.... 


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 04:54
^ I agree.....don't. It isn't as if she has bad taste, except in her mouth possibly.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 05:05
Play her whatever you like and if it doesn't click with her, sex her up. Big smile
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Points: 31663 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 05:31
Originally posted by Zombywoof Zombywoof wrote:

Just play "Selling England by the Pound" or something in the car or during a date and see what happens.
 
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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2012 at 05:56
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Jazz and classical are better than prog, just forget about it

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It definitely does sound like she's the one who should be giving you the music advice here.
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